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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Sunday Sweets is my weekly NON-Wreck feature, the better to show how wrecky the Wrecks really are.

I'd like to say today's post will remind many of us of our childhood, but if you're like me you were probably watching some of these into your teens. (I especially loved Animaniacs in high school. Aw, great, now I'm going to be humming "Pinky & the Brain" all day. Dum da dum da dummm...)

And lastly, you know how I've been badgering y'all to send me a Snorks cake? Well, my lovely Wresksistant Anne-Marie took it upon herself to surprise me with this last week:

Once I stopped laughing, I had to ask her how she even did this. You've got to understand: Anne-Marie is the best cook I know, but she's not a decorator. So considering she free-handed and decorated this using nothing more than a few tubes of store-bought icing, I think it's pretty darn good. And sweet, since she just wanted to ensure the Snorks were present in today's post. I just wish she didn't live on the other side of the country, so I could have had a slice. [crossing arms & pouting] Hmph.

Of course, AFTER Anne-Marie made that one, Pennie K sent in a more official Snorks Sweet:

"but if you're like me you were probably watching some of these into your teens."

I'm STILL watching some of them! The advent of all our favourite old TV shows on DVD is a wonderful thing! I have the Animaniacs and the Tick, and I spent $170 on the ginormous shiny box set of the Real Ghostbusters...

Don't be too hard on the Ninja Turtles as a theme for a wedding cake. It's simply melding popular culture with the ancient belief that the world rests on the back of a giant turtle. The loving couple simply want their marriage to be based on such a strong foundation! Right? Besides, it could have been worse. It would have been the Herculoids.

Back in 1986, we had a friend in college who was a huge Inspector Gadget fan, because she loved Don Adams. Her birthday happened during one of the breaks, so when we all got together again, we gave her a cake with his image that said, "Happy belated birthday, Lori. Sorry about that."

OK, "Sorry about that," was a Get Smart catchphrase, but she was thrilled.

Loving the TMNT wedding cake! The only way to make it better would have been if the tops of the layers were decorated like manhole covers. Makes me wonder if they color coordinated the rest of the wedding - can you imagine the bridesmaids' dresses?

I don't think Anamaniacs was on before I was in high school, but I was a huge fan. I worked in an animal lab throughout my undergrad and had two pet rats named Kinky (bent tail) and The Brain that I sneaked out in the early years.

My childhood is coming back to me! I used to watch Scooby-Doo every single day after school. (I still watch it sometimes. xD) And the Ninja Turtles and animated Inspector Gadget! They were awesome. I still love Pinky and the Brain...

Even though I spent my early years in the early 90s I loved inspector gadget and get smart. Although I must point out that Scooby Doo is actually a 1970s cartoon, and tom & jerry have been around since the 1930s (although some my favorite cartoons of T&J were made in the 50s/60s) although I thought that the Tom & Jerry cake had to be the best!

I'm nearly 18, and I remember most of those from my early childhood...I loved the smurfs, and I was sad when they weren't on cartoon network anymore. Most of what aired after that was awful anyway....so yeah. The smurfs were good.

Great cakes :) I loved the Smurfs as a kid and Scooby Doo (the newer version sucks now, though). I LOVED Schmoo and Captain Caveman. That last cake is the cutest!!! Holy 80's flashbacks, Batman! The Animaniacs seriously seemed like a cartoon for adults with the guise of being for kids (lots of jokes that adults would catch, but not kids). The Mafia Pigeons were too funny as well.

My 6 year old son is now heavily into Pokemon now. Would LOVE to see a Pokemon cake!!!

I know a couple who would totally have had that TMNT cake at their wedding!

Love the Smurf cupcakes (cookies?) but WHERE is Azriel?

I DEMAND ANIMANIACS! (I briefly dated a guy who did a spot-on Wacko and knew ALL the lyrics to ALL the songs - off to Amazon to find that CD...) Morgi, marry me. Or at least burn a copy of them for me. please? "o)

Animaniacs was the BEST. I watched it obsessively, and was thrilled to get the entire series on DVD for Christmas this past year! (Before that, I actually had a bunch of episodes on homemade DVDs that someone burned off of the TV somehow, thanks to my also-Animaniacs-loving best friend who contacted the person and got copies for both of us.) You should find an Animaniacs cake if possible-- that would be faboo!

the snorks always bring back a fond memory... when for some reason i was playing with a stuffed snork by the toliet and *kerplunk!* that was the end of that snork... i guess it was destiny to end back up in the water.

Hmm, the Ninja Turtle cake is very well done, but as wedding cake? Grounds for an immediate postponement of the ceremony until there's been some serious discussion about other design/decorating decisions regarding artwork, drapes, carpet, etc!

Hooray that Snorks were found and that you, Jen, and all of us 80s children can rest better! :) I can't believe someone was so "cowabunga dude" over Ninja Turtles to have it as a wedding cake, but then again, we all have our obsessions!

I don't remember the snorks, but Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain had such great theme songs....whatever happened to them??? How could they be replaced by some of the stuff I am subjected to via 3 kids????

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Scooby Doo -- I even went to see both of the live action movies at that theater when on opening weekends (would've been better off watching old shows at home!) So I adore the Scooby cake and want one for my birthday!

To all of those people saying "why did Cartoon Network drop the Smurfs????" They technically didn't. They're on Boomerang now. Along with the Snorks, Scooby Doo (and some with Scrappy too... ugh), the Jetsons, Flintstone, Amazing Chan, Superfriends, Hong Kong Phooey, Jonny Bravo, Swat Katz, Tom & Jerry, and well you get the idea. No, I'm not a rep for CN, I'm just a cartoon freak who's had Directv for a while now.

Anyway, I second whoever said 90s cake theme! I would love to see a Doug cake, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold, Batman, X-men (it won't be legit unless it has Gambit), Gargoyles, and of course anything Animaniacs related (that includes spin offs). Oh and Tiny Toon Adventures too... but I doubt you'll find any of that.

Where in the world is a Carmen San Diego cake? Has there been one already?

I have had an aweful day today. I have been sick, and all of that junk. So then I log onto Cake Wrecks, looking for a good time, and you make fun of pinky and the brain. Thats just the icing on the cake "Bu dun ts". I named my fish after them when I was 7 i hope you know!

I "LOVE" cakewrecks more than anything in the wrold! I have even purposely made cakewrecks for my co-worker who shares the love of cakewrecks.com [Fireworks] However, I find it sad that real cakes rarely find their way into Sunday Sweets. No, frosting isn't as pretty or easily shaped as edible clay..er..I mean fondant, but that's what cakes are - fluffy sweetness with frosting on top.I'm starting to think that maybe you just like cute clay figurines and you don't really like cake? I'll let it slide though because you're hilarious, but please, for "cake's" sake...add some real cakes.

I gotta say, I need to recommend the Ninja turtle cake to my fiancee'!

As an uber nerd myself, I have vital input! (Right?) Despite there being a female turtle for a brief time, that figure atop the cake is definitely the Donatello action figure with a wig and white bandanna! You can tell by the tone of green the body is.

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